A poster asking some Kansas middle school students a sexually provocative question has at least one parent up in arms. “How do people express their sexual feelings,” the poster asks, before listing “touching each other’s genitals,” “anal sex” and “vaginal intercourse,” among other things.

The New York State Education Department (NYSED) site contained a section called “Make test prep fun,” which directed students to a site with quizzes that help them find out if they are a “sexy bitch,” “evil,” a “freak,” “insane,” etc. Scrolling down and right on the page, students could also click on the links to take quizzes that would help them find out if they are “sluts,” or “losers.”

Let me see if I've got this straight. The suits in the entertainment industry massively enrich themselves by marketing Lady Gaga to eleven year old girls, and we're supposed show that we're worldly, urbane, sophisticated people who haven't the slightest concern about conduct like this. Then we're shocked--shocked!--by drug use, provocative dressing, foul language, lewd conduct, meanness, and sexual promiscuity by tweens and young teens. Please count me among the simple, backward, unsophsticated hicks and rubes who think we should hold the entertainment business accountable the way we hold the tobacco industry and environmental polluters accountable. -Robert P. George

In its updated statement, Gender Dysphoria in Children, the American College of Pediatricians (College) calls for an end to the normalization of gender dysphoria (GD) in children because it has led to the ongoing experimentation upon, and sterilization of, confused children. Children with GD believe that they are something other than their biological sex...

Mandates by public institutions to force the acceptance of GD as a normal variant of child development and require social accommodation, toxic hormone therapy and surgical removal of healthy body parts, are misguided and dangerous.

The New York Times has some advice for parents considering what costume their preteen girls should wear this Halloween: Go “sexy.”

For the Times, columnist Leora Tanenbaum, a senior writer and editor for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, tells parents that if their little girls want to play “sexy cat,” then they should let them don the whiskers, fishnet stockings, and skimpy leotards. Or, Tanenbaum helpfully writes, let your little angel be a “Sexy police officer. Sexy nurse. Sexy angel. Sexy devil.”

Controversy is surrounding a sex education conference in Oregon as the event has hosted students as young as 11 years old. The conference gives tips on masturbation, using internet porn and quirky alternatives to sex. Lesson plans taught at the Oregon Adolescent Sexuality Conference include tutorials on porn websites, pamphlets on sexting and information about “teledildonics,” or the remote use of sex toys over the Internet, KOIN-TV reports... Brad Victor, a spokesperson and director for Teen Pregnancy Task Force and the organizer of the conference, is partially paid with state funds to put on the program in Seaside.

Parents at a Near West Side school say they are “shocked” and “horrified” after viewing a new sex education curriculum intended for fifth-graders, saying the way the information is presented is over the top and not age-appropriate... At one point, parents could view materials intended for students. A binder labeled as the curriculum for students in fifth grade touted the benefits of female condoms for extending sex and increasing pleasure and encouraged using lubrication.

Democrat New York Assemblyman José Rivera apologized for a racy video he posted in which he was making sexually suggestive comments about teen girls, focusing his camera lens on their rear ends as they walked by and extolling the sexual benefits of a concoction he called "mamajuana." Rivera, assemblyman for New York's 78th District, apologized for posting the video to his YouTube account after his vacation in the Dominican Republic.

The brochure, subtitled “A Young Persons Guide to their Rights, Sexuality and Living with HIV”, was distributed at a panel hosted by The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts and contains such controversial statements as “Play with yourself! Masturbation is a great way to find out more about your body and what you find sexually stimulating.”

The CFHC, a non-profit organization, has set up a website advertising its "Condom Access Project," where teens as young as 12 years old can receive free condoms in the mail. “The Condom Access Project (CAP) is a free service that provides condoms for youth in California (12-19 years old),” the website states. “If you’re having sex, protect yourself and your partner by using a condom every time. Enter your info below to find out how you can get free condoms near you.”

The ‘Respect Yourself’ website and smartphone app, which is the first of its kind in the UK, has sparked outrage after advising children that they can disregard the legal age for sexual consent since ‘you are the only one who knows when you are ready’. The website, based on the Dutch sex education system, contains detailed descriptions of sexual practices and a 'dictionary-style' list of explicit terms, suggesting that children could avoid open discussion with their parents if this is likely to cause 'upset'.

Yes, we know things are different in France, but Vogue Paris surpassed some shocking fashion milestones by featuring a 10-year-old female model, Thylane Blondeau. Wearing smokey-eyed makeup and four-inch heels, Thylane's Lolita-like fashion spread has caused an uproar on this side of the pond.

In a move that has shocked fashion onlookers, scantily-clad young girls wearing make-up and sporting voluminous up-dos are promoting a new range of lingerie that is targetted at girls as young as four years old. Combining lingerie and lounge wear to form 'loungerie,' the Jours Après Lunes line for four to 12-year-olds features a range of panties, bras, camisoles and T-shirts with lace edges, ribboned bow detailing and nautical stripes. The shots feature young girls in poses and styling that seem far too premature for their ages.

"Adolescents who are exposed to more sexual content in movies start having sex at younger ages, have more sexual partners, and are less likely to use condoms with casual sexual partners," said Dr Ross O'Hara, who led the study.